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Exploring the Mississippi River

This quiz tests your knowledge about the Mississippi River, its tributaries, historical significance, and geographical features. Challenge your understanding of one of America's most important waterways!

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1 What is the mouth of the Mississippi River known as?

2 [17] After the expeditions by Giacomo Beltrami and ________, the longest stream above the juncture of the Crow Wing River and Gichi-ziibi was named "Mississippi River."

3 Great River Bridge – cable-stayed bridge connecting ________ to Gulf Port, Illinois.

4 What state is the Mississippi River associated with?

5 The area of the Mississippi valley was first settled by Native American tribes, such as the ________, Sioux, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Fox, Kickapoo, Tamaroa, Moingwena, Quapaw and Chickasaw.

6 Measured by water volume, the largest of all Mississippi tributaries is the ________.

7 The Mississippi River has the fourth largest ________ or "catchment" in the world.

8 ________ is the only true waterfall on the entire Mississippi River.

9 What does the following picture show? Sequence of NASA MODIS images showing the outflow of fresh water from the Mississippi (arrows) into the Gulf of Mexico (2004). The Hernando de Soto Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee (2009). Lock and Dam No. 2, near Hastings, Minnesota (2007). The confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers at Cairo, Illinois is the demarcation between the upper and the lower Mississippi River.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Merck headquarters campus (pictured) is home to the largest ground-mounted solar power tracking system east of the Mississippi River.
  • the Delta Music Museum in Ferriday, Louisiana, honors 16 musicians of the Mississippi delta.
  • the 2005 Liberty Bowl was the first time Fresno State played a college football bowl game east of the Mississippi River.
  • the Michigan Wolverines softball team in 2005 became the first team from east of the Mississippi River to win the Women's College World Series.
  • the legendary Buenaventura River was imagined to parallel the significance of the Mississippi River within the western North America.
  • the valleys of the Minnesota and Upper Mississippi Rivers were carved by Glacial River Warren, an enormous river which drained Glacial Lake Agassiz in central North America.
  • the town of La Balize, Louisiana, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, was rebuilt several times after 1699 because of hurricanes before it was destroyed and abandoned around 1860.
  • some Native Americans traveled up to 1,500 miles (2,400 km), from as far away as the Mississippi River, to participate in the 1757 Siege of Fort William Henry near Lake George, New York.
  • South Gate Assembly, opened in 1936, was the first General Motors plant west of the Mississippi River and the first to build more than one car line.
  • Bruce Shorts, head football coach at Nevada and Oregon, was described in 1904 as "the best coach west of the Mississippi River".
  • Ambloplites species are native to a region extending from the Hudson Bay basin in Canada to the lower Mississippi River basin in the United States.
  • Franklin Steele built the first sawmill at St. Anthony Falls and the first permanent bridge (bridge pictured) to cross the Mississippi River.
  • Itasca State Park (pictured) in Minnesota contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
  • Marlin Gray was executed on October 26 for his part in pushing two women off the Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1991.
  • Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker, an African American trombonist from the Mississippi River delta country, played at least five instruments in a 74-year musical career.
  • Oregon's longest covered bridge is the Office Bridge and is the only one west of the Mississippi River with a sidewalk.
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